aspiration
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Lincoln did not treat the Revolution as an open-ended aspiration; he gave it a moral center, insisting that equality was not an optional inheritance but the nation’s core identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
However, if a poem leads you to a state of understanding, of awareness, and above all, aspiration, then you start to think about a different life, you want to live differently.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
"Through our ambitious reforms announced in the post-16 education and skills white paper we will restore universities as engines of growth, aspiration and opportunity."
From BBC • May 12, 2026
“I was raised by two moms, and I had this strange aspiration to become the dad,” Malone said, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
His ultimate aspiration was to be president of the United States, which meant his approach to solving the threat would require precision and shrewd calculation.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing aspiration
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Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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